WSM5270

Feminist poetics

Dr Maryanne Dever

8 or 12 points
* 2 hours per week
* Second semester
* Clayton

Objectives As for WSM4270 with the additional objective that students should develop a more comprehensive and sophisticate understanding of contemporary feminist theorisation of sexual and textual politics in relation to poetics.

Synopsis As for WSM4270 with the additional synopsis that students will explicitly be required to situate their readings of poetic texts and of poetics in the context of recent feminist, psychoanlytical and poststructural theory.

Assessment (8 points) As for WSM4270
Assessment (12 points) class participation: 20%
* A short essay on a common topic (3000 words): 30%
* Long research essay based on oral presentation of seminar paper (6000 words): 50%

Prescribed texts

As for WSM4270